Marc Palet: AI More Effective than an Intern for a VC in Singapore

The Impact of AI Tools on a VC's Productivity in Singapore

Marc Palet, a venture capitalist based in Singapore, has found an innovative way to enhance his productivity through artificial intelligence. By using tools like Claude and Lovable, he is able to automate his workflows, allowing him to meet more founders and discover better opportunities for his firm. At just 26 years old, Palet has already invested in over 12 AI companies since the start of his venture capital career.

An Unconventional Path to Venture Capital

Marc Palet discovered the world of venture capital while running an online fashion business during his studies in Barcelona. During an exchange program in Hong Kong, he had the opportunity to build a network and learn about a venture capital firm investing in sectors such as fintech, blockchain, and AI. These areas particularly interested him, leading him to stay with the firm after graduating. He spent three years in Hong Kong before moving to Singapore to lead the company's investments in the Asia-Pacific region.

Strategic Use of AI Tools

Although Marc Palet has automated many processes, he has not replaced his software subscriptions with AI. In fact, he spends over $120 per month on tools like Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, and other transcription APIs. He is even willing to invest more if it can boost his productivity.

Optimizing Meetings with Founders

In 2023, Marc Palet began using ChatGPT, but it was the integration of coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Replit that truly transformed his way of working. One of the first solutions he developed is a system that automatically summarizes his meetings with founders. Thanks to Fireflies, meetings are recorded, and instead of spending time listening and taking notes, he receives a structured summary that covers the company's issues, proposed solutions, the market, and other essential information captured during due diligence.

Creating a Personal Knowledge Base

Marc Palet often faced the problem of forgetting interesting information he read on LinkedIn or X when he was away from his computer. To address this, he created repositories on NotebookLM where he can copy and paste information he wants to retain. When he writes a blog post, he can query this repository to retrieve all the necessary data.

Towards an Automated Business Brain

Inspired by Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, Marc Palet set out to build a self-sustaining knowledge base that updates automatically. Using Claude Code, he developed a system that extracts information from Gmail, Slack, call transcription services, newsletters, YouTube podcasts, and other sources where he receives updates about the companies in his portfolio.

AI: A More Powerful Asset Than an Intern

One of the workflows Marc Palet has implemented automatically generates quarterly reports for limited partners, summarizing everything that has happened in the portfolio during the reporting period. Another workflow assists with due diligence by gathering information from all the companies in the portfolio. These once time-consuming tasks are now automated, freeing up valuable time for a small venture capital fund.

Marc Palet's publishing agents on LinkedIn have significantly increased his content output, going from an in-depth article every two months to one every three weeks. Each post generates more business flow, and the time saved on operational tasks allows him to spend more time in face-to-face meetings. For him, AI is far more efficient than training an intern who only stays for a few months. AI executes tasks exactly as he wants, proving that the combination of AI and his expertise is more powerful than that of an intern.